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October 16, 2008

Commentary

Where Did the Money Go? – Smoke and Mirrors

By Lloyd Wynn Columnist

Since October, 2007, the stock market has lost $8.35 trillion in value, retirement funds have lost over $2 trillion and within the past 2 years, $6 trillion in home equity has vanished. The question many Americans have been asking is where did all that money go? That is a question with merit and will require…

Since October, 2007, the stock market has lost $8.35 trillion in value, retirement funds have lost over $2 trillion and within the past 2 years, $6…

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Commentary

Giving Political Cover to Repression At Home, and Empire Abroad

By Larry Pinkney Editorial Board

When a snake sheds its skin it nevertheless remains a snake. An Empire maintains its power through a combination of diversion & disinformation within its own borders concomitant with internal repression & exploitation, and perpetually waging external wars which are always predicated upon some form of subterfuge and misinformation. The U.S. Empire is no different…

When a snake sheds its skin it nevertheless remains a snake. An Empire maintains its power through a combination of diversion & disinformation within its own…

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Commentary

Sister, Can You Spare Some Class: Black Women in the Media – The Substance of Truth

By Tolu Olorunda Columnist

Who can argue with prophetic leader and political prisoner, Mumia Abu Jamal’s assessment that “Black women are the most disfavored of all the nation’s women?” Only a fool would. Black Women, historically, have had to endure the horror of living in a world that screams hatred from its four corners. Like piercing swords drilling a…

Who can argue with prophetic leader and political prisoner, Mumia Abu Jamal’s assessment that “Black women are the most disfavored of all the nation’s women?” Only…

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Commentary

A Real Rescue And Economic Recovery

By John Funiciello Columnist

It’s clear now that the bailout of the large financial institutions of Wall Street and the people who led them into trouble is not going to do very much to help the average worker survive in an economy that’s growing more hostile to them with each passing year. What the bailout of Treasury Secretary Henry…

It’s clear now that the bailout of the large financial institutions of Wall Street and the people who led them into trouble is not going to…

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Commentary

The Grateful Dead – The Zeroes Are Back, and They Have Offspring! – Letters from Zimbabwe

By Mwana Wevhu Columnist

BC welcomes Mwana Wevhu (a pen name which means “son of the soil”) as a columnist. His writings will appear on a regular basis. The Grateful Dead The National Incomes and Pricing Commission (NIPC) was set up to control the high rise of prices, but has so far failed dismally, as prices now go up…

BC welcomes Mwana Wevhu (a pen name which means "son of the soil") as a columnist. His writings will appear on a regular basis. The Grateful…

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Commentary

Desperate Teachers Eat Pupils’ Food

By Godfrey Mutimba

“We have no option but to share the porridge with our pupils, for us to survive and also for the energy to teach them,” said Jeffrey Gumbo, a teacher at Mutenda primary school. “There is widespread hunger and starvation and we have not been spared, so we have to eat anything we get in order…

“We have no option but to share the porridge with our pupils, for us to survive and also for the energy to teach them,” said Jeffrey…

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Commentary

What Congressman John Lewis was Really Saying

By Dr. Anthony Asadullah Samad, PhD Columnist

Much ado has been made over Georgia Congressman’s John Lewis’ statements about the nasty turn the Presidential campaign took at Republican rallies last week. From Palin saying Obama was “palling around with domestic terrorists, to Republican rally supporters calling the Democratic nominee “an Arab,” “a terrorist,” and calling for Obama’s death, shouting out, “Kill him!”,…

Much ado has been made over Georgia Congressman’s John Lewis’ statements about the nasty turn the Presidential campaign took at Republican rallies last week. From Palin…

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Commentary

We Must Struggle Against Cultural Surrender

By Dr. Conrad W. Worrill, PhD Columnist

The works of one of our great African in America scholars, researchers, lecturers, educators, and teachers, our most recent ancestor, Dr. Asa G. Hilliard, III, must be read, studied, and discussed as we continue to organize in the Black Liberation Movement. We must study materials that will heighten our African consciousness in pursuit of the…

The works of one of our great African in America scholars, researchers, lecturers, educators, and teachers, our most recent ancestor, Dr. Asa G. Hilliard, III, must…

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Guest Commentary

African Americans: Stop Hatin’ on Immigrants!

By Ken Brown Guest Commentator

A word to my fellow U.S. African Americans: Get real – and stop hatin’. I’m referring to growing anti-immigrant sentiment in black communities in this country. After reading reports containing the disgusting news of black workers cheering at government immigrant-hunting raids,e.g., “Immigrant Raid Divides a Mississippi Town,” Miguel Bustillo and Richard Fausset, LA Times, August…

A word to my fellow U.S. African Americans: Get real - and stop hatin’. I’m referring to growing anti-immigrant sentiment in black communities in this country.…

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